# Free vaccination

• Free covid-19 vaccination will be provided to three crore healthcare and frontline workers in the first phase of vaccination – said health minister Harsh vardhan.

• Nation wide vaccination dry run was conducted in 286 session sites spread across 125 districts on saturday.

# “Covaxin”

• Also, India’s first indigenously developed covid-19 vaccine, “covaxin” was recommended for restricted use in emergency situation, subject to multiple regulatory conditionalities.

• This recommendation was given by the subject expert committee of the central drugs standard control organisation.

• India has successfully isolated and cultured the new coronavirus strain, which was first reported in the UK.

# FATF meet

• Lashkar-e-taiba operations commander zaki-ur-rehman-lakhwi was arrested in pakistan by its counter terrorism department on charges of using terror funds.

• The timing of arrest is significant as it comes ahead of meeting of the global watchdog “FATF” and its asia pacific joint group in the next few weeks.

• This FATF meeting will consider Pakistan’s greylist status, meant for countries under increased monitoring.

# AI based CCTVs

• Gurugram metropolitan development authority (GMDA) mooted a project for a closed circuit television camera based surveillance and adaptive traffic management system for the millenium city.

• It’s first phase is expected to be completed by march this year with the installation of around 1200 CCTV cameras.

• It will have AI and features such as traffic signal violation detection, over speeding detection, face recognition and reading of number plates at 200 odd places.

# Assam’s only ramsar sites

• The Kamrup (metropolitan) district administration has prohibited community fishing in Deepor Beel.

• This is a wetland on the south western edge of guwahati and assam’s only ramsar site.

• According to hydrological experts, the area of the wetland was about 6000 hectares in the late 1980s.

• Satellite imagery has revealed that its area has shrunk by atleast 35% since 1991.